Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fcde0908ed77b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 11:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aa87c378af689659be1c39f5ae9b2627 SHA-1: eab46668fda03100f57dd40c743767e58832b33d SHA-256: 1fcde0908ed77b7a8a58e0d11430b9d3daa5723a0559e16c06da68e5180bc651
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=medical+english+springer+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, including 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/rejem.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the lure and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing attempt disguised as a legitimate document. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=medical+english+springer+pdf
    • http://files.threeonabbott.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969377/709123.pdf
    • http://files.pokemontcgstore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775032/2682217.pdf
    • http://files.stanthonysschoolkitimat.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814476/botaxemoburevobiruze.pdf
    • http://files.teambuildingidaho.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383581/zowovanesezukugituxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/rejem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8443/7922/files/nowi_fire_emblem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1222/6202/files/83675214474.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3485/4051/files/13562167256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0496/8603/files/dasuxefiwusezizokonelonus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2484/9815/files/20584422791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1753/4629/files/18703662858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3437/0470/files/dafuwalevinoneralonorelu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1458/6517/files/45247800413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5285/files/fibebugejex.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007c84.bin
24cf7b2728e6f35d8385c0f3b5080b46b7b849f6686f1c053ee2e70ee5891f31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C84 5020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d85.bin
4c1e31eb49a8fbf7346217f2ea7c90ef9d05d30af7705237ab83b6f78c88d6f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D85 15008 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bc01.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC01 4324 bytes